RSSAC/PC cooling mod
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Feb 12, 2008 12:00 PM
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Congratulations, your PC now uses more electricity than your refrigerator. Global warming here we come!
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Ever heard of a Peltier Junction? Much, much, much, MUCH more efficient and magnitudes more quiet, and cheap.
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there is a fine line between stupid and interesting. This one is so far over the line... That contraption wastes so much power and is such overkill that its an abomination. Worse, if it worked well, it would generated enough cold that it would fracture chips from the heat stress. Its not even particularly clever.
I have to agree with all the comments before me! Don't try this at home!
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you can tell the people who live in their parents' basements because they don't pay their own electricity bills. sort of like the 14 year old who thinks that running an old pc 24/7 is a great way to save on $5/mo web hosting.
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I wonder how long that AC will run on that tiny UPS.
Or, how long the CPU will take to crack when the power fails :-/
Neat trick, though :)
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My main concern would be condensation. I once built a system that used a peltier to chill the air blowing across the processor heat sink. Unfortunately I underestimated the amount of condensation I would get from the heat sink attached to the peltier.
As a result the processor fan shorted out and since this was an old K6 II system the power supply didn't shut off when the processor over heated. I was away at class at the time and by the time I came back I had a block of ice inside my case.
Lesson learned: Cool air in a computer is a good thing but cold wet air is a very bad thing.
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you know there are things called dehumidifiers...AC is used extensively to cool radar/NAVAIDS/COMM electronics and these work wonders on the condensation problem.
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